To mitigate the concerns and questions that Twitter employees may have, the social media giant will host an AMA session(Ask Me Anything) with Elon Musk where the employees can ask Elon questions directly. This information was outed by a spokesperson on Thursday. Elon Musk to hold AMA on Twitter Elon Musk is currently the largest shareholder at Twitter after securing 9.1% of the stake in the social media giant....
Europol and US ICE seize 292 domains selling counterfeit goods.Action The operation which was completed over last weekend was a part of a old operation called’In Our Sites (IOS) Transatlantic V,’ which targets fake goods and counterfeiters websites. The operation was coordinated by Europol for its partners (Albania, Belgium, Bulgaria, Colombia, Croatia, Denmark, France, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Spain and the United Kingdom) and the HSI-led National Intellectual Property Rights Coordination Center (IPR Center) in Washington, DC, for the United States....
While the feature is only available in the US currently, it is expected to go live soon. Here are a few steps to show how to send and receive money via Messenger: Step 1) Payments on the app requires a debit card on both ends of the transaction, however, there is no attached cost to use the service. It offers PIN-based protection and what Facebook claims are “industry-leading security” standards....
While testing out the feature, Facebook has stated in the following quote on how it got a sizable amount of positive feedback over the course of several months, which is why the company decided to provide support for Tor browsers. However, the company is yet to tell us why it has not enabled the feature for iOS and Windows Mobile powered devices. May be it had something to do with the dominating operating system market share of the platform....
Besides helping people to stay connected, the hub also aims to offers tips, authoritative information and other resources about the epidemic, as we practice physical distancing. “Being physically separated from the people you care about is hard. This is especially true in uncertain times. Messenger allows people to be with friends and family regardless of where they are or what device they’re using. Around the world, we’ve seen significant increases in people using Messenger for group calls to stay in touch with their loved ones....
“Meta has developed what we believe is the world’s fastest AI supercomputer,” said Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg in a statement. “We’re calling it RSC for AI Research SuperCluster and it’ll be complete later this year.” Currently, AI can perform tasks like translating text between languages and helping identify potentially harmful content, but developing the next generation of AI will require powerful supercomputers capable of quintillions of operations per second. According to Meta, RSC will help its AI researchers build new and better AI models that can learn from trillions of examples; work across hundreds of different languages; seamlessly analyze text, images, and video together; develop new augmented reality tools; and much more....
Facebook says its participation “should not be interpreted as an endorsement of any candidate, issue or political party,” reported Recode. It plans to do the same at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia. This comes as a surprise as Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook last month had used the Facebook’s developer conference to indirectly criticize the immigration policies of Republican front-runner Trump. “I hear fearful voices calling for building walls and distancing people they label as ‘others....
For those unaware, last month, Facebook had unveiled its “Messenger Rooms” feature for a small subset of people to compete against Zoom, another video chat product that has surged in popularity due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) lockdown. Messenger Rooms app allows users to host video calls of up to 50 people with no time limit from Messenger or directly from Facebook via News Feed, Groups, and Events. Zuckerberg also confirmed the Rooms integration for WhatsApp as well as Instagram....
The father, who has remained anonymous, had sued Facebook for failing to enforce its age restriction policy. His 11-year-old daughter from Northern Ireland, who is only referred to as GS in legal documents, used the social network site to create multiple Facebook accounts and uploaded sexual photos of herself and communicated with the men on the website. Facebook should have done more to enforce its age restrictions policies and is liable for the sexual predators his daughter was exposed to on the site, said the father....
FTC shuts Butterfly LabsBitcoin Mining specialized hardwareButterfly reaction In a complaint filed earlier this month, the FTC alleged that the Butterfly Labs charged consumers thousands of dollars for computers that mine Bitcoins but then failed to deliver the machines “until they were practically useless, or in many cases, did not provide the computers at all,” the agency said in a statement Tuesday. Bitcoin Mining specialized hardware Bitcoin as we know them are of limited supply and have to be mined....
This is according to an email where Epic will be randomly selecting some Fortnite players in order to invite them to take part in a private testing session. According to email Epic is saying “Are you interested in joining Epic Games for an exclusive Fortnite private testing session in Los Angeles, California? If selected, you’ll be playing custom matches to help us test unreleased spectating features and tools that will be used in future events....
Apparently, Apple employees have already been using the updated features to access offices and buildings at Apple’s headquarters in Cupertino via their iPhones. For those uninitiated, the NFC (near-field communication) chip feature was added in the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6S in 2014 to allow for contactless information exchanges and is limited to Apple Pay and mobile payments. Compared to Bluetooth, NFC is a more secure way of authentication. According to MacRumors, “The change to the near-field communication, or NFC, chip, which is expected to be announced next month, could pave the way for people to use iPhones for other security-sensitive interactions, from paying transit fares and opening car doors to verifying their identity in other ways....
Well, that’s what Microsoft is trying to do. The software giant is hoping to sway you by paying as much as $650 to get rid of your current MacBook Pro or MacBook Air and “trade up” to a new Surface Book or Surface Pro at a Microsoft Store or via Microsoft.com. Microsoft’s Mac trade-in program is yet another campaign in the company’s buyback battle against Apple. This deal was announced by Microsoft right after Apple’s latest keynote address, where they released the next generation of MacBook Pros....
While earlier Windows version users were quite habituated to see BSoD on their PC/laptop screens, the BSoD screens become rarer with subsequent Windows versions. However, even now with Windows 10 or Windows 7/8.1, the Blue Screen of Death evokes exactly the same feeling of desperation amongst users, that it evoked when we were using Windows XP. Seeing the BSoD on your PC or Laptop in one thing and seeing an entire building with a BSoD screen is quite shocking or awesome (the way you see it)....
GoDaddy is the world’s largest domain name registrar and web hosting giant that provides services to an estimated 20 million customers around the world. In a document filed to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Monday, GoDaddy said that the website hosting company discovered an “unauthorized third-party” access to their Managed WordPress hosting environment on November 17, 2021. The data breach has resulted in the exposure of email address and customer number of up to 1....
The Chromium developers stated that very few people use the Backspace key to navigate to the previous page. The developers say some of these people come from pages that had forms loaded which will anyhow have to be reloaded. The main reason for removing the Backspace is that users when filling out a form press Backspace thinking they will delete a character, but if they shift focus from the form to the browser window, they are actually navigating back one page, losing their entire form data....
Fortunately, Google’s latest tool is set to make all of this much easier. Google has launched a feature that will include job searches right into the traditional Google Search. The feature will let you search for jobs from across websites including LinkedIn, Monster, WayUp, DirectEmployers, CareerBuilder and Facebook among others right from its home page. This search will also include job listings posted on the websites of individual companies. The tool The main idea behind this new tool is to allow a user to search for available jobs without having to browse through multiple job portals....
The AnTuTu Benchmark application was last updated on February 7, while the latest update for the AI benchmark app was on February 13th. It is not known exactly when the application disappeared from the Play Store, although the AnTuTu application was available until February 22nd. According to a report from Android Police the disappearance of AnTuTu apps is being linked as part of the crackdown on Cheetah Mobile. Last month, Google reportedly pulled out all Android apps published on the Play Store by Cheetah Mobile, due to the company’s repeated violations of privacy policies of its Play Store....
